Out with a whimper: Storms over in East, South

By CLARKE CANFIELD, Associated Press
| 8:53 a.m.June 3, 2013

This June 1, 2013 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the foundation of a house, foreground, that Brushy Creek washed away in Montgomery County between Oden and Mount Ida, Ark. Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and Friday. Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock. The house appears in the background. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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This June 1, 2013 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the foundation of a house, foreground, that Brushy Creek washed away in Montgomery County between Oden and Mount Ida, Ark. Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and Friday. Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock. The house appears in the background. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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This June 1, 2013 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Brushy Creek several feet deep over the road in Montgomery County between Oden and Mount Ida, Ark. Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and Friday. Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/NOAA)— AP

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This June 1, 2013 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Brushy Creek several feet deep over the road in Montgomery County between Oden and Mount Ida, Ark. Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas late Thursday and Friday. Three others were missing in floods that followed 6 inches of rain in the rugged Ouachita Mountains near Y City, 125 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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An airplane is damaged on the campus of the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Okla., Sunday, June 2, 2013. A massive tornado roared through the area on May 31st causing widespread damage and flooding. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)— AP

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An airplane is damaged on the campus of the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Okla., Sunday, June 2, 2013. A massive tornado roared through the area on May 31st causing widespread damage and flooding. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
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Groundkeepers pull the tarp over the field before a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox after a delay in the start due to predicted severe weather was announced at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)— AP

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Groundkeepers pull the tarp over the field before a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox after a delay in the start due to predicted severe weather was announced at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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A police officer and a security guard survey storm clouds overhead the stadium before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)— AP

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A police officer and a security guard survey storm clouds overhead the stadium before a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Oklahoma Gov. Fallin talks with Canadian County Sheriffs officials and thanks them for their duties during the tornado that damaged the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Okla., Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)— AP

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Oklahoma Gov. Fallin talks with Canadian County Sheriffs officials and thanks them for their duties during the tornado that damaged the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Okla., Sunday, June 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
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Keith Walton, left, talks with Gov. Jay Nixon at what remains of his house in the 900 block of Haversham Drive on Saturday, June 1, 2013 after a overnight storm in St. Charles, Mo.. Walton and his wife were on vacation in Florida when the storm destroyed their house and flew back early to see the damage. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Huy Mach) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT— AP

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Keith Walton, left, talks with Gov. Jay Nixon at what remains of his house in the 900 block of Haversham Drive on Saturday, June 1, 2013 after a overnight storm in St. Charles, Mo.. Walton and his wife were on vacation in Florida when the storm destroyed their house and flew back early to see the damage. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Huy Mach) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT
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Riley Webb hands her seven month old baby Bryce Webb down to Oklahoma County Commissioner Willa Johnson after being rescued by Midwest City Fire Dept. personnel from a flooded mobile home park off of Air Depot Blvd. between NE 10th and NE 23rd St. in Midwest City, Okla, Saturday, June 1, 2013, after up to eight inches of rain fell during the previous 24 hours. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMO— AP

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Riley Webb hands her seven month old baby Bryce Webb down to Oklahoma County Commissioner Willa Johnson after being rescued by Midwest City Fire Dept. personnel from a flooded mobile home park off of Air Depot Blvd. between NE 10th and NE 23rd St. in Midwest City, Okla, Saturday, June 1, 2013, after up to eight inches of rain fell during the previous 24 hours. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMO
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A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving this heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Company on State Highway 66 in El Reno, Okla. on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when the tornado took aim at the plant. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the tornado passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATION— AP

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A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving this heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Company on State Highway 66 in El Reno, Okla. on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when the tornado took aim at the plant. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the tornado passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATION
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Lightning strikes over One World Trade Center, center right, during a thunderstorm seen from The Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J., Sunday, June 2, 2013. Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and a tornado touched down in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)— AP

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Lightning strikes over One World Trade Center, center right, during a thunderstorm seen from The Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J., Sunday, June 2, 2013. Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and a tornado touched down in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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PORTLAND, Maine 
The remnants of violent storms that killed more than a dozen people in Oklahoma moved out to sea with a whimper Monday, but not before sending punishing winds and torrential downpours to New England and spawning a tornado in South Carolina.

Sunday's storms sheared off trees and utility poles in parts of northern New England and dropped ping pong ball-sized hail in New York state.

On Monday, the storm blew out to the Atlantic with only isolated thunderstorms and localized heavy rain as a cold front began moving in and clearing the region.

At the peak of the storm, more than 40,000 homes and businesses were without power in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. That number had fallen to about 12,000 on Monday morning, with utilities hopeful to have most power restored by the end of the day.

In all, there were more than 100 reports of severe weather across the region on Sunday, mostly in a swath from central New York to Maine.

In northwestern South Carolina, a tornado knocked a home off its foundation and blew part of the roof off, said Taylor Jones, director of emergency management for Anderson County. Some trees were blown down and there was heavy rain but no widespread damage.

Although there were plenty of reports of severe weather, there weren't widespread reports of extreme weather, with winds in excess of 75 mph and hail measuring 2 inches in diameter, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service East region headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y.

"Still, we're fortunate nobody was injured or hurt," he said.

The storms swept through the Plains on Friday with tornadoes and flooding, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 people, officials said Monday.